Tree Street Youth students to visit UMaine for campus tour, diversity dialogue
The public is invited to a diversity dialogue with students from Tree Street Youth during their visit to the University of Maine on Tuesday, Feb. 21.
Tree Street Youth is a Lewiston-based nonprofit offering after-school and summer programs to predominantly low-income students from immigrant or refugee families. Founded in 2011, the agency supports Lewiston-Auburn youth through programs rooted in academics, the arts and athletics in a safe space that encourages healthy physical, social and emotional development. It aims to promote individual successes by building unity and creating bridges across lines of difference.
The Tree Street Youth students will spend the day at UMaine, including a campus tour led by a representative from the Office of Multicultural Student Life. In addition, they will meet with students in the College of Education and Human Development’s Education in a Multicultural Society course taught by Tammy Mills, an assistant professor of education.
The diversity dialogue from 2:15 to 3:30 p.m. in the Coe Room of the Memorial Union is open to the public. A snow date is scheduled for Thursday, Feb. 23.